The Baby Le Mans: 1981 Moto Guzzi Monza for sale in CT

1981 Moto Guzzi Monza
Miles: 8,250
Clean Title
PE100073
East Lyme, CT
$7,000

SELLER
For sale is 1981 Moto Guzzi Monza. The Monza has 8,250 miles and it is in very good original condition, a survivor in original condition. She is not a trailer queen, but she runs strong and handles like she is on rails. Moto Guzzi is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer whose engineers sculpt an exotic motorcycle for the art of carving a corner. The Monza is a compact light weight nimble motorcycle that corners as if it is attached to a rail. There is enough power to pull like a tractor without the rise and fall from driveshaft torque while throttling up or down. The Monza is known as the baby Lemans. The Monza 1 was produced from 1981 to 1982. All Monza frame and engine serial numbers will have the prefix of PE. Manufactured in 1981 only approximately 100 are known to exist in in the USA.

RSBFS
The Monza doesn’t come up often. Moto Guzzi’s 500cc V-twin baby brother to the Le Mans, built for two years and largely forgotten outside of the faithful. The seller’s “attached to a rail” description is one you hear a lot from people who’ve actually ridden one.

Eight thousand miles on a 45-year-old Italian bike with a clean title and matching PE-prefix VIN is a solid starting point. The seller isn’t faking the rarity either: the Monza 1 production window was tight, and surviving examples in original condition are genuinely scarce.

Seven grand for a numbers-matching, running, original-condition survivor? That’s not a stretch, especially if Connecticut storage has been kind to it. Worth a call, worth a look.

Good luck to the buyer and seller!

Notes: Buyer should verify the PE-prefix VIN matches the seller’s stated PE100073. Given the small known survivor count in the US, provenance documentation would be a nice bonus if the seller has it.